Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

These meadows aren't worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can't stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can't stand unfairness.

(a) Who speaks the above lines and to whom?

(b) How much are the meadows worth?

(c) Find a word in the extract the means 'not based on what is just.'

Answer 1

(a) The above lines are spoken by Natalya to Lomov.

(b) The meadows are worth 300 roubles.

(c) The word 'unfairness' refers to something 'not based on what is just'.